Apologies for the tardiness, but the official ZERO POINT blog tour began this week, including reviews, excerpts, interviews & guest posts from yours truly, all about different aspects of the book! Here's the text of the publisher's announcement of the tour , with dates and links to the blogs involved:

Curiosity Quills is proud to announce the blog tour for political science-fiction thriller Zero Point by Nafeez Ahmed. From September 15th - 26th, 2014, excluding weekends, you’ll find reviews, excerpts, interviews and guest posts from  Nafeez Ahmed about his debut novel.

09.15.14: Mary Bernsen at Read It Write - Excerpt
09.15.14: Rebecca at Sister Sinister Speaks - Guest Post

09.16.14: Sarah Cass at Sarah’s StoryLines - Excerpt
09.16.14: Katie Teller at Katie’s Stories -  Guest Post

09.17.14: Diane Riggins at A Creative Mind - Review
09.17.14: Chroniques Aléatoires at Les Chroniques Aléatoires - Interview

09.18.14: Carol at I’m A Voracious Reader - Review
09.18.14: Linda Crumbaugh at Bit of Pop - Excerpt

09.19.14: Jennifer at The Cubicle Escapee - Interview
09.19.14: Matthew Graybosch at A Day Job and a Dream - Guest Post

09.22.14: Jola at Wonderful World of Books - Review    .
09.22.14: Sarah at Ink of Blood - interview

09.23.14: Rae Quigley at Drunk On Pop - Guest Post
09.23.14: Trisha Ratliff at The Readers Life With Trisha Ratliff - Excerpt

09.24.14: Mallory Anne-Marie Forbes at Mallory Heart Reviews - Excerpt
09.24.14: Lucy Lala at Book-A-Holic - Review

09.25.14: Lisa at The Troubled Oyster - Excerpt
09.25.14: Gill Raker at Another Skeptical Environmentalist  - Review

09.26.14: Andrea Buck at Flipside News -  Review and Interview

The first batch of reader reviews for ZERO POINT have arrived. I'm chuffed to say they're all pretty damn good! First up, I'm honoured to announce that I got my first official endorsement from a fellow novelist. Boyd Morrison, former NASA engineer and the international bestselling science fiction thriller author of The Vault, The Catalyst, Rogue Wave and The Ark, said this about ZERO POINT: 

“Nafeez Ahmed has mined his extensive background in international security to create a fast-paced thriller that combines conspiracies, terrorism, and cutting-edge technology. Prepare to hold on for a wild ride!"


Some reviews from the blog tour are coming in too. We got this 5 star review from Mallory Heart Reviews:

"An extraordinarily plotted, high-tech, high-classified-intelligence, "deep background," very near-futuristic adventure, throat-catching, breath-taking, and heart-pounding. The author has decades of research and scholarly study into the fields in which his well-developed characters interact, and reading this pulse-pounding thriller became an education for me as well as an adventure.

If I had to choose which among all the.varied aspects of.this novel remain with me, those would be the author's thoughtful treatment of the protagonist' s PTSD, and his presentation of certain strands of quantum physics, which he made understandable, simultaneously interweaving these with historical elements."


And another 5 star review came in today from Rebecca at Sinister Sinister Speaks:

"ZERO POINT is the first book of The Unraveling Trilogy and starts off with a bang. A literal bang! David Ariel's escort mission goes up in fire when the Prime Minister's vehicle is incinerated. Mass casualties abound. Including all but one other member of Ariel's team. A cryptic message from his Journalist girlfriend in Iraq leads him back to the military he'd rather have left in his past while he fights to uncover the perpetrators of this heinous deed... before the next terrorist attack.

Loaded with thrills, action and intrigue, ZERO POINT should leave you thoroughly satisfied."


And finally, the first Amazon.com review, from a verified purchaser, Paul Walmark - another 5 star:

"A brilliantly-conceived, near future thriller, by an author with impeccable credentials as an investigative journalist. I recommend this one highly!"


Currently, ZERO POINT is doing the rounds on the blogosphere of the literary underworld of cross-genre fiction, so we'll have more updates on reader reception very soon!

Want your copy? You can pick it up easy via Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk in paperback or ebook.